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New York City black metal project with fifteen releases since 2019. One of the city's most prolific extreme acts, their catalog — from the color-study Cerulean to the mathematical Constant Variables — treats black metal as a medium for ceaseless exploration.
Atrium Noctis is a melodic black metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2018, whose releases include Blackwards and the track Leviathan, delivering epic symphonic black metal with bombastic arrangements, profound dispatching, and atmospheric dark sections. The band brings cinematic grandeur to the Rhineland's extreme metal scene.
Atro is a blackened doom and death metal project from Campina Grande, Paraíba, active since 2019. The project operates in the underground extreme metal circuit of Brazil's northeast, blending the suffocating weight of doom metal with blackened atmosphere and death metal aggression.
Brutal Deathcore from El Paso.
Atrocidade merges black and death metal from Lisbon since 2013. Their Portuguese name meaning 'atrocity' delivers exactly the horrors promised through over a decade of extreme metal from the capital.
Atrocious Command is a black/death metal band from Bruges, Belgium, operating in the underground extreme metal scene with a sound that draws equally from the aggression of death metal and the dark atmosphere of black metal. The band has released material through their Bandcamp page as an independent act.
Columbia, Missouri thrash act from the college town's underground, bringing aggressive metal to the Show-Me State's heartland with determined fury.
Tallahassee, Florida sludge/thrash hybrid with two releases since 2011. Named after the DC Comics rage-powered villain, their split with Ex-Breathers and Five Inversions EP channel capital-city fury through heavy, angular music.
Atrocitus is a thrash and metalcore band from Curitiba, Paraná, one of the more active names in the city's underground metal scene. Drawing on aggressive thrash structures alongside metalcore dynamics, the three-piece — featuring Huan Cruz on vocals and bass, Geert Giullian Strijker on guitar, and Pettrus on drums — has released singles such as "Veneno" and "Repulsa" and built a following through energetic live shows across the Paraná metal circuit.
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